'Coal' Morrison and The Taunters of TAR

Pleased as punch
the Minister returns to his pew

to, himself, behold the Holy Coal.
That went quite well, he thinks. 

Hon. ScoMo with Coal and Parliamentary Papers

photo Mike Bowers / The Guardian  

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Ringing in his ears

the cheers of the COALition 

the jeers of the mob.
Perfect!

   

TAR : The Opposition front bench responds to the Sight of Coal :
Tanya Plibersek, Chris Bowen and Mark Butler. 

photo Alex Ellinghausen / Fairfax Press 

Somewhere in the Gallery
another bell sounds ...

 St. Stephen with Coal upon Book of Martyrs, after Jean Fouquet

 AAT/Agency of Alternative Truth  

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 someone looks at something... 

         
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the MUMA OSW show 

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the ACT COALition panto 

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=  the ringinginging of bells 

for instance, from 2008, another event at Monash Uni :

    

Paul Ramirez Jonas and a moment of regard from the conference Out of Bounds : Art, Faith & Religiosity held earlier this year at Monash University (Faculty of Art & Design). The object of Paul's attention derives from the keynote paper by Janine Antoni: When the Object Looks Back

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TAR p|resents Das Lumpen Coalition

   COALition (Australia)
   The COALition, also known as the Liberal-National COALition,
   is a political alliance of centre-right liberal and conservative 

   parties, which has existed in Australian politics in various forms

   since 1923. (wikipedia) 

   Leader‎: ‎Malcolm Turnbull
   Deputy Leader‎: ‎Barnaby Joyce
   Treasurer: Scott Morrison
   Minister for Environment and Energy: Josh Frydenberg
   Minister for Revenue and Financial Services: Kelly O'Dwyer

   Minister for Social Services: Christian Porter

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   COALophobia 

   "There is no word for 'coalophobia' officially, but that is the 

   malady that afflicts those opposite (The Opposition). It is that 

   malady that is affecting the jobs in the towns and the industries 

   and, indeed, in this country because of the pathological, 

   ideological opposition to coal being an important part of our 

   sustainable and more certain energy future."

      - Scott Morrison, Treasurer

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When the Treasurer read and regarded yesterday's post about OSW...

  

Research image of a Sigillaria fossil,  

Museums Victoria Collection, #375, 2013.  

 photo: Open Spatial Workshop   

  

and grasped the politico-theatrical possibilities of HAND SPACE exposition ... 

                     

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... he knew he had to act. 

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The Honourable Member then concealed upon his person a handsome piece of that ancient fossil fuel and stepped into the Question Time pit to await his moment there to show & share and in communion
bear witness to the crux of COALition.

    CO₂ : in communion,
    Libs + Nats together
    In communion : together,

    to hold and behold 

    COAL : coal

Cometh the moment, cometh the COALman*. Dorothy delivers her dixer and The Treasurer moves to the despatch box with [ beneath a cover 
of white paper, mystical, black, energetic, diamond-to-be...

Hansard records the script : 

Mr MORRISON (Cook—Treasurer) (14:28): "This is coal. Do not be afraid. Do not be scared. It will not hurt you."


 The Treasurer shows the COAL to the Opposition

Theatre of the Actors of Regard / HAND SPACE  

photo ABC | Nick Haggerty  

THE SPEAKER: "The Treasurer knows the rule on props." 

The Treasurer then turns to his COALition fellows and presents the COAL to them.

   

 SHOCK & ORE : Barnaby Joyce beholds the COAL

Theatre of the Actors of Regard | HAND SPACE  

photo Kym Smith | AAP  

          
Mr MORRISON: "It is coal. It was dug up by men and women who work and live in the electorates of those who sit opposite—from the Hunter Valley, as the member for Hunter would know. 
  
Treasurer Morrison continues his sermon as the COALition faithful pass the sacramental matter from one to the next. Along the Ministers of the front bench, then to those in the ranks behind.
  

  

Minister for Environment and Energy Josh Frydenberg   

formerly dubbed 'Mr Coal'   

was last year upgraded to 'Minister for Coal'   

  

   

Mr MORRISON (continues) : "It is coal that has ensured for over 100 years that Australia has enjoyed an energy-competitive advantage that has delivered prosperity to Australian businesses and has ensured that Australian industry has been able to remain competitive in a global market.

  

             Backbench : Women of COALition share the joy. 

             One by one...  

Theatre of the Actors of Regard | HAND SPACE               

photo ABC | Nick Haggerty               

Those opposite have an ideological, pathological fear of coal. There is no word for 'coalophobia' officially, but that is the malady that afflicts those opposite.

  

             Backbench : Women of COALition share the joy. 

             Two by two...  

Theatre of the Actors of Regard | HAND SPACE               

photo ABC | Nick Haggerty                

It is that malady that is affecting the jobs in the towns and the industries and, indeed, in this country because of the pathological, ideological opposition to coal being an important part of our sustainable and more certain energy future.

Affordable energy is what Australian businesses need to remain competit-ive. They cannot fizzle out in the dark as those opposite would have them do...

 
Below, Minister Kelly O'Dwyer, who is with-child, is proffered the Gift of Coal by the well-named Logos Bearer, the would-be fourth member of the Magi, Christian Porter, Minister for Social Services : 

              Behold ye this offering

                  to the generation unborn,

              Receive ye this gift

                  for the future of all kind.

              "It is coal.

                  Do not be afraid.

              Do not be scared.

                  It will not hurt you."

   

Theatre of the Actors of Regard | HAND SPACE                

photo Alex Ellinghausen | AFR                

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         A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

         someone looks at something... 

         
         LOGOS/HA HA
          

  

  

OPEN SPATIAL WORKSHOP (OSW) : CONVERGING IN TIME

   
Opening celebrations, Saturday 11 February
Open Spatial Workshop in conversation with Matt Poll, 2-3pm
Official opening, 3-5pm
With opening remarks by Professor Lynette Russell, Director, Faculty of Arts Monash Indigenous Studies Centre.

MUMA | Monash University Museum of Art presents Open Spatial Workshop: Converging in time. This will be the first major museum exhibition by Open Spatial Workshop (comprising artists Terri Bird, Bianca Hester and Scott Mitchell). The exhibition is part of MUMA's much anticipated annual survey exhibition series that presents the practices of Australia's most exciting and innovative mid-career artists.

Converging in time continues OSW's sculptural investigation into the forces of material formation. Drawing on earth sciences research and studies of the Anthropocene, this new exhibition explores the relationship between the mineral make-up of a site and the societies they produce and sustain.

Open Spatial Workshop (OSW) 

in conversation with Matt Poll, 2-3pm

Preceding the opening event, join us for an in conversation between Terri Bird, Bianca Hester, Scott Mitchell (OSW) and Matt Poll (curator, Indigenous Heritage and Repatriation Project, Macleay Museum, University of Sydney), who will discuss different ways of relating to earth: as material, as form, as geology, as territory, as history, as Country. Together they will explore the various ways that knowledge systems shape an engagement with localities, acknowledging the complexity of an ethical engagement with material histories.

  

Image : Research image of a Sigillaria fossil,  

Museums Victoria Collection, #375, 2013.  

 photo: Open Spatial Workshop   

  

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MoMA Installs Works by Artists from Countries Targeted by Trump’s Travel Ban

headline and article (3 Feb 2017) from HYPERALLERGIC :

In an unprecedented gesture, the museum has replaced works in its permanent collection galleries with eight by artists from Muslim-majority nations named in Trump’s executive order.


Theatre of the Actors of Regard :
Installation view of the collection galleries at Museum of Modern
Art, New York, after this week’s rehang (photo Robert Gerhardt)
 
In response to President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has replaced works in its permanent collection galleries with eight by artists from the targeted nations. Though it might sound small, the rehang is an unprecedented gesture in the museum’s history, instigated and executed by staff who wanted to react to unsettling political circumstances.

Organized by a group of curators across a number of departments, the reinstallation occurred last night on the fifth floor, following an initial discussion two days after Trump issued the order on January 27.

read full article HERE


 Theatre of the Actors of Regard :
 Parviz Tanavoli, “The Prophet” (1964) photo Robert Gerhardt

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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Leader of the Opposition (continued)

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 Pavel Pepperstein, Untitled 
 (Oh, here is this fucking yellow triangle again!) 

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 Theatre of the Actors of Regard [Yellow) 

   

   

   

Wisdom in the Age of Rage

  

At the centre of Tibetan Buddhism's Wheel of Life diagram, a snake a pig and a rooster hold to each other. They represent ignorance, anger and desire attachment as the causes at the core of our unsettled suffering.

    

click image to see full Wheel of Life diagram    

1. Anger is of most concern among the afflictive emotions. In all the writing and discussion read and heard by this correspondent, in the analysis the diagnosis and the seeking for a way beyond these Trump-focussed troubles, there has been no questioning of the appropriateness of anger in the mix. We regard this as blinkered and unwise.

Righteous anger is typically a reactive emotion of anger over mistreatment, insult, or malice. It is akin to what is called the sense of injustice. 

Righteous indignation - Wikipedia

book by Panjak Mishra, first published 25 January 2017  

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump  Jan 15
For many years our country has been divided, angry and untrusting. Many say it will never change, the hatred is too deep. IT WILL CHANGE!!!!

It /we will not change if not attended to at the root.

2. Ignorance in this schema is further described as ignorance of the true nature of reality. Without here going into a presentation of that view, how is the present climate of our knowledge of the true nature of reality? ...in this so-called "post-truth" (Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year) age? 

Gnosis is the common Greek noun for knowledge (γνῶσις, gnôsis, f.). It is often used for personal knowledge compared with intellectual knowledge (εἶδειν eídein), as with the French connaitre compared with savoir, or the German kennen rather than wissen.    Latin dropped the initial g (which was preserved in Greek) so gno- becomes no- as in noscō meaning "I know", noscentia meaning "knowledge" and notus meaning "known". The g remains in the Latin co-gni-tio meaning "knowledge" and i-gno-tus and i-gna-rus meaning "unknown" and from which comes the word i-gno-rant, and a-gno-stic which means "not knowing" and once again this reflects the Sanskrit jna which means "to know", "to perceive" or "to understand". 

Gnosis - Wikipedia

Post-truth politics (also called post-factual politics) is a political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy, and by the repeated assertion of talking points to which factual rebuttals are ignored. 

Post-truth politics - Wikipedia

Agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data.
       The neologism was coined by Robert N. Proctor and Linguist Iain Boal, a Stanford University professor specializing in the history of science and technology. Its name derives from the Neoclassical Greek word ἄγνωσις, agnōsis, "not knowing" (cf. Attic Greek ἄγνωτος "unknown"), and -λογία, -logia. 

More generally, the term also highlights the increasingly common condition where more knowledge of a subject leaves one more uncertain than before. David Dunning is another academic who studies the spread of ignorance. "Dunning warns that the internet is helping propagate ignorance – it is a place where everyone has a chance to be their own expert, he says, which makes them prey for powerful interests wishing to deliberately spread ignorance". 

Agnotology - Wikipedia

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump  Jan 13

Totally made up facts by sleazebag political operatives, both Democrats and Republicans - FAKE NEWS! Russia says nothing exists. Probably..
released by "Intelligence" even knowing there is no proof, and never will be. My people will have a full report on hacking within 90 days!

Jesus : "The truth shall set you free" 

Pilate : "What is truth?"

Trump : "I am your voice"

3. Desire attachment fuels the American Dream and all such dream machines. Every generation of snake oil salesmen sells anew Fear of Loss and the Prospect of Redemption : Paradise Lost and Make America Great Again. We the people : angry, ignorant and would-be/dispossessed project to reflect to elect to follow to reject again the next available suitably framed mirror...



 from 2014 exhibition 'Debris of the Future' by Pavel Pepperstein

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Postscript : 9 February 2017, in today's New York Review of Books, The Age of Total Lies by Vesna Pešić and Charles Simic. And, via that, the March 2012 article Age of Ignorance by Charles Simic.


     

Art Criticism in the Age of Xtreme Vetting : JUST SAY NO!

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Pozible | Audience Book

    

Ross Coulter introduces the project 
The “Audience” book is derived from a series of photographs documenting an audience standing around an empty gallery, in which there is no art, watching a performance that doesn't exist.

By drawing on the visual language of 1970s performance art documentation images, I have constructed a photographic archive of an audience witnessing a number of performance events in art galleries around Melbourne. The series is a portrait of the audience and gallery spaces in and around Melbourne. And in 20 years time it will be important. Really important.



The series of photographs will be shown in March 2017 at the NGV as a part of the Photography Festival, (along side Brook Andrew, Zoe Croggon, Patrick Pound and other notable artists).

To coincide with the exhibition I have produced a much anticipated (ahem) book.

There have been over 850 people who have participated as audience members and the photographs have taken place in 95 gallery spaces.



How The Funds Will Be Used
The funds raised from this campaign will go towards the printing, binding and transportation of the "Audience" books.
   


The Challenges
Some initial funding was provided by the City of Melbourne, however the scope of the project has grown considerably since 2013. The more spaces I shot, the more galleries became involved in the project. It turns out that there are over 90 gallery spaces in and around Melbourne. As a result I have photographed over 850 people and made 446 analogue prints (please don't tell me there is another gallery opening up).

The project has subsequently grown and the publication now has extended to two volumes. Of course this blows out the initial budget; hence this Pozible campaign.

In Return
Project supporters can receive, in return for pledges from $10 to $1500, a variety of returns : from a set of postcards to the Audience Book to a day's fly fishing for two.

For the Pozible site and further pledge info click below 

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